Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being. - Antonin Artaud

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Where there is a stink of shit
there is a smell of being.

Antonin Artaud

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About Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud (September 4, 1896 – March 8, 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French playwright, poet, actor and director.

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Alternative Names: Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud • Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud • Artaud

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Additional quotes by Antonin Artaud

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

All true language
is incomprehensible,
Like the chatter
of a beggar’s teeth.

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.